Editorial: Policy examination due during MLGW

It would be bad process to carve policies into slabs of plain stone, and it was good to hear this week that that’s not a box during Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division.

It’s a unhappy explanation that 65-year-old city sanitation workman Jerdean Johnson died of what seemed to be heat-related symptoms in his Orange Mound unit final week.

But a order that prevented Johnson from receiving application services by MLGW is a work in swell that is positively theme to review, reliable boss and CEO Jerry Collins.

For miss of dual forms of identification, including a print ID, annals show, Johnson, a 45-year city employee, was catastrophic in dual attempts to obtain services for a unit in Feb of 2010.

The ID he was released as a city worker was not excusable during a time, and Johnson did not have a driver’s license.

Since then, a order that eliminates a city worker ID label as an excusable means of marker has changed, though a print ID requirement stays in place.

The proof behind a print ID is widely accepted. To forestall someone from receiving use underneath fake pretenses, and so revoke waste from miss of payment, a print ID is, perhaps, a easiest remedy.

Identifying people but a print ID no doubt requires some-more time and offers a larger challenge.

But as a application revisits a policy, it contingency import a problem of that charge opposite a risk of exposing intensity clients to weather’s extremes.

Perhaps a kind of MLGW “safety net” suggested by Mayor A C Wharton — assistance with receiving a required marker for those who need it — would suffice.

Individuals in a village as good as a institutions should be peaceful to assistance people in formidable circumstances.

The critical charge now is to find a approach to forestall another tragedy like a genocide of Jerdean Johnson from occurring again.